Norton Ghost --- clone a drive with xp pro

[Joe]

I've got a hard drive that is acting like it's going to
crash and burn. I'm trying to clone the drive before
this happens. So far I am having no success. The cloned
drive almost comes up, it will now get to the "Welcome"
screen before it stalls. The drives are both Maxtor
80gb. The one that may be dying is an ATA 133, the one
I'm trying to set up as a clone is an ATA 100. I don't
know if this is part of my problem. I've asked in some
other forums and people say they can get Ghost to work.
I'm not a newbie to computers but, to Ghost I seem to be.
Does anyone know how to make this program work and if so
are there any "Ghost for Dummies" instructions?

Thanks --- Joe

 

[I'm Dan]

I've got a hard drive that is acting like it's going to
crash and burn. I'm trying to clone the drive before
this happens. So far I am having no success. The
cloned drive almost comes up, it will now get to the
"Welcome" screen before it stalls. The drives are
both Maxtor 80gb. The one that may be dying is
an ATA 133, the one I'm trying to set up as a clone
is an ATA 100. I don't know if this is part of my
problem. I've asked in some other forums and
people say they can get Ghost to work. I'm not a
newbie to computers but, to Ghost I seem to be.
Does anyone know how to make this program
work and if so are there any "Ghost for Dummies"
instructions?

This is a common problem with cloning tools like Ghost and DriveImage if
you're not careful. Was the old XP on drive "C:"? If so, try this trick:
remove the old HD, make new HD the master, get a Win98 boot floppy (download
one from www.bootdisk.com if you need to), reboot from the floppy, execute
the command "fdisk /mbr", remove the floppy, reboot from the new HD. See if
it now comes up properly as a new drive C:.

 

[Joe]

-----Original Message-----



This is a common problem with cloning tools like Ghost and DriveImage if
you're not careful. Was the old XP on drive "C:"? If so, try this trick:
remove the old HD, make new HD the master, get a Win98 boot floppy (download
one from www.bootdisk.com if you need to), reboot from the floppy, execute
the command "fdisk /mbr", remove the floppy, reboot from the new HD. See if
it now comes up properly as a new drive C:.

It's an NTFS drive. That won't work. 98's DOS based

fdisk won't even see the drive.

 

[I'm Dan]

It's an NTFS drive. That won't work. 98's DOS
based fdisk won't even see the drive.

Doesn't matter. It doesn't need to see NTFS. The MBR has nothing to do
with DOS or NTFS, anyway. All this does is use fdisk to erase the Disk ID
from the MBR so XP rebuilds the partition signature for drive C: in the
registry. But you don't need to try it if you don't want to.